Hitt v. Hitt’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2017
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 484 So. 2d 6 - Florida Bar v. Goodman · 380 So. 2d 473 - Garrison v. Garrison · 473 So. 2d 739 - Antonini v. Antonini · 467 So. 2d 492 - Sever v. Sever · Davidson v. Davidson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there can be no provision for an automatic change in the amount of alimony awarded unless the evidence supports a finding that the receiving spouse's financial position will in fact change in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Segall v. Segall
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.